Joseph Rezek Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Joseph Rezek

That is some f’d up shit that happens in the novel Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.

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There is something thrilling that happens when a contemporary novel changes radically in its content, but the manner of narration and style of writing stays the same. This is a feature of C19 realism, very retro. It is happens in Colm Toibin’s The Magician, which I’m reading now.

Joseph Rezek

@John_Attridge Harvard UP publishes the DuBois lectures, given at the Hutchins Center. Kenneth Warren, Paul Gilroy, others, https://t.co/D6VRQom4Xg

Joseph Rezek

Jonathan Swift invented LEGO but if the proportions were strictly acc. to gulliver’s travels Lego people would be the size of a can of soda, so it is possible Lego actually IMPROVED upon swift’s original concept.

Joseph Rezek

“Lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival” -Frederick Douglass, “What to the slave is the Fourth of July” 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 https://t.co/MxmuvoWvzM

Joseph Rezek

That is some f’d up shit that happens in the novel Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.

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Joseph Rezek

Henry James was like, oh yes that “Boston art-critic and Shelley-worshipper” (derogatory). Let’s make a lil novel about it.

Joseph Rezek

@doessheeek In Maria Edgeworth’s Ormond (1817) the eponymous hero does not read all of Tom Jones but skips around.

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I'm always happy to talk about the shape of the book, with its long chronology (1589-1861), and it's many planed twists and turns, and the star of the whole project: Phillis Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, published in London in 1773. 2/

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Grilling at my parents I full on set the salmon on fire. Dante’s inferno. Middle age is humiliating.